Jennifer Boum Make

Jennifer Boum Make is an Assistant Professor in the Department of French & Francophone Studies at Georgetown University, where she also serves as Director of Undergraduate Studies. She maintains cross-disciplinary affiliations with Georgetown's Medical Humanities Initiative and African Studies Program, reflecting her interdisciplinary approach to colonial legacies and care systems.

Her educational background includes:

• Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh (2019)

Dr. Boum Make's research centers on decolonial care frameworks within French Caribbean contexts, analyzing how colonial histories of slavery and imperialism shape contemporary caregiving dynamics and systemic health neglect. She employs literary and visual methodologies to investigate racialized and gendered asymmetries in women's health across French Overseas Territories, connecting French colonial history with modern immigration studies and medical humanities. Her work bridges Caribbean studies, postcolonial theory, and critical care ethics through a transnational lens.

She co-founded and actively participates in the Kwazman Vwa collective, which organizes monthly academic dialogues featuring contemporary Caribbean writers during the academic year to foster critical discourse on diasporic narratives.